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(Fwd) RE: McVeigh? Nimrods.....
At 3:50 PM -0700 6/4/97, Paul Bradley wrote:
>> Like my fellow Santa Clara County Resident Bill Frantz said :
>>
>> For cypherpunks this comes down to: Make code, not bombs.
>
>True, code will lead to further liberation in the virtual communities,
>but bombs are an effective device for ending the corrupt tyrannical
>government that rules us.
It is my contention that, in the present circumstances, bombs
are not effective devices for ending the corrupt tyrannical
government which rules us. They are much more likely to make
enemies for "our cause" than they are to physically stop the
government. Does the phrase, "Bomb throwing anarchist" give you
the feeling of hero, or of villain? Most people will answer
villain, and killing people is not likely to change their minds.
Anyone head of Non-Violent Action (NVA) ?
Seems to me writing and disseminating Code is a pretty effective form
of NVA
Peter Nicol
Global Media Magnet
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Rather than trying to figure out all the chains of causality,
the modeler looks for nodes where feedback loops join and tries
to capture as many of the important loops as possible in the
system's "picture." Rather than shaping the model to make a
forecast about future events or to exercise some central
control, the nonlinear modeller is content to perturb
the model, trying out different variations in order to
learn about the system's critical points and its homeostasis
(resitance to change). The modeler is not seeking to
control the complex system by quantifying it and mastering
its causality; she wants to increase her "intuitions"
about how the system works so she can interact with
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